May 23, 2011

The Kitchen

Tadaa! The kitchen!

Please excuse the lateness of this post. I’m officially pooped. I was just saying to Wille how I have so much to post about but no time to write and edit photos. I get up at the crack of dawn on weekends and get on with stuff but there are just too few hours in a day! Also I have major internet issues and have very patchy online access. I spend at least an hour a day on the phone with the broadband/internet/phone/TV people. Frustration! I’m posting this at work this morning because I had wasn’t able to upload my Live writer written post yesterday and couldn’t upload photos to Typepad. Arrrghhh!

Anywho, this is my kitchen. It’s all IKEA and my contractors did an amazing job finishing it after IKEA forgot (!) to organize the construction of it. Duh! Good thing I have my contractors who stepped up and gave me a much better kitchen than I ever expected to have. Electrical outlets galore, recessed spotlight, you name it, I have it.

A couple of eyesores still; the dishwasher door is still missing because they were out at IKEA (and will have to wait at least another month…) and I’m waiting for my lovely fridge to arrive, hopefully this week.

aaaaaarhghhh I want someone to show up and put ours together already. Doing it all yourself is a real pain in the rear. But at least now I can get a sense of how it will look like (at some point in the hopefully not so far future), thanks to You :) I love your exhaust hood, SO pretty!!

very beautiful, very much in keeping with your aesthetic. what a pleasure to cook in. how wonderful that you had such great people working for you! all those years of renovating, it was a rare thing to find someone excellent. the big contractors had usually snapped them up. internet issues are exhausting! out here in the countryside it drove us quite mad. a whole month for a telephone! get some rest! x

STUNNING! I've been dying to see it. You'll get so much joy from this space. I can't wait to see you work your magic on the rest of the house! Well done. Get some rest and I hope the internet issues get resolved (I know exactly how obnoxious that can be....waited a month to get connected at my most recent place.).

Ay, I feel a spark of jealousy! Your kitchen must be a pleasure to cook in and just be in! Get someone else to cook you some meals in there, so you have a bit more time to relax and just enjoy your new place.

We had exactly the same IKEA kitchen when we renovated our previous flat, same doorhandles and metro wall tiles ;D It's so simple and clean lined and lovely. The dishwasher door not being on is a familiar story too! Well done it looks gorgeous.

For our current renovation (I can't wait to sell and not have to renovate anything for at least two years!) we are going more old style painted kitchen as the house is 1830s and suits that style. We will see how that goes!

STUNNING!!! I am cheering you on from here! Love everything about it, and the current fridge looks pretty good too! I thought it was your new SMEG, can't wait to see it when it arrives. I have the same Ikea glass containers, so at least I have ONE thing in my kitchen that looks like yours! :-)

What a gorgeous kitchen, I'm also loving the white subway tiles! Good luck with the internet/phone etc people. They can be a real pain to deal with even on the best of days! Looking forward to your upcoming post on Mini and Bonus as well!

Oh, Benita! You make me love modern. My style is much more fluffy, but I still drool over your homes. I'm excited to see the wide angle, including dining and living areas (no rush, though - I'm very patient).

And, unrelated, it was so clever of you to make a move plan for M&B. I didn't do so, and it ended up being pretty stressful on moving day for the cats and me. It took them quite a while to adjust to my new home.

That was so fast for a kitchen remodel! You must have a great team working for you! I was in IKEA this past weekend and I thought of you as I walked through the kitchens! I LOVE LOVE LOVE your kitchen! So pleased to see the beautiful pics! :) Congrats on a job well done! Enjoy!

They are white laminate. Would have gone for all white but because they aren't pure white I prefered that the aluminum front is in between the pure white on the cabinet fronts and the slightly more yellow whilte on the counter top. This way you don't notice.

They are readily available at IKEA over here but can't fiind them on the US website...It's actually one huge drawer disguised into three by handles... I have my trash can in there and two recycling bins.

Wow! That looks amazing! Not surprised you're so pleased - can't believe it's finished so quickly too! It must be so lovely to start from scratch with a kitchen - everything exactly where you need and want it! So relaxing in white too!